Patents by Inventor Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250096650
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component (30) for lining a slot (7) that is formed between two poles of a rotor core (2) of a rotor (1) and that extends axially between two end faces (9) of the rotor core (2), having a slot insulation element (15) for electrically insulating winding sections, arranged in the slot (7), of windings (45) of the rotor (1) from the rotor core (2), which slot insulation element has two side regions (21) for resting on slot edges (16) of the slot (7) and a base region (22) to be arranged so as to overlap with a slot base (17) of the slot (7), wherein a bottom (26), facing the slot base (17), of the base region (22) of the slot insulation element (15) has an axially extending notch (27) and the component (30) has a heat sink (29) having at least one cooling fluid-carrying cooling channel (33) for cooling the winding sections arranged in the slot insulation element (15), which heat sink is arranged in the notch (27) of the slot insulation element (15) so as to be arranged on the slot base
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Markus LANG, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 12255498
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Lang, Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12244190
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrically excited drive machine includes: a coil per rotor pole with, in each case, one first energizable coil unit, and a rotor core for holding the coils of the rotor poles. The coils have, in each case, at least one second energizable coil unit per rotor pole. The rotor has an interconnecting unit which is designed to interconnect the at least two coil units per coil in a manner which is dependent on an operating point of the electric drive machine in order to set the number of windings of the coil, and in order to electrically connect the coils of the rotor poles for configuring a rotor winding with an overall number of windings which is dependent on the numbers of windings of the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norman Borchardt, Robert Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250049629
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for end effectors having an aperture are disclosed. An end effector may be driven by a reciprocating driver that drives the end effector in a reciprocating manner. The end effector may have an aperture therethrough and may be formed from a flexible high rebound material. When driven, the end effector may transfer energy from the reciprocating driver to a target treatment area on a recipient for therapeutic purposes. Energy may pass from the reciprocating driver and be temporarily stored within the end effector before being released and imparted to the target treatment area. The end effector may contract about the aperture and rebound to deliver the energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Schmidt, Neal Piper
  • Publication number: 20250047159
    Abstract: A sliding cover for a salient-pole rotor of an electric machine for closing a groove formed between two adjacent salient poles of the salient-pole rotor, having a groove-closing wedge extending axially and in the peripheral direction, for closing the groove and supported on pole shoes of the adjacent salient poles, the groove-closing wedge having an inner side facing the groove and an outer side facing an air gap of the electric machine, and at least one bulkhead arranged on the groove-closing wedge and extending radially starting from the outer side of the groove-closing wedge, for reducing a power-loss-increasing axial flow along the sliding cover in the air gap of the electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Joachim MAERZ, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20250036609
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer programs of the present disclosure relate to database cataloguing, information identification based on similarities, and information retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Joerg CRAMER, Naghman WAHEED, Sujit THAPA, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 12194726
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat press, especially knee lever-transfer press with at least one socket, with at least one base plate and with at least one heatable counter plate pivotable towards the base plate, wherein the knee lever-transfer press further has a control unit, by which the knee lever-transfer press is controllable in an open-loop manner and/or closed-loop manner and wherein the control unit constitutes a first modular unit of the knee lever-transfer press and wherein the socket constitutes at least one second modular unit, and the base plate and the counter plate constitute at least one third modular unit and wherein at least the first modular unit and the second modular unit and/or the third modular unit are separable from each other and/or are formed to be replaceable for functional comparable modular units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEPATA SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmidt, Oliver Tiedemann, Fabian Franke, Konstantin Köppe, Robert Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20240372429
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main part which has at least one pole core, at least one winding device which is received on the at least one pole core, and at least one contact device which is rotationally fixed to the rotor main part and which is coupled to the at least one winding device to conduct a current. The at least one winding device includes at least one winding that is plugged onto the at least one pole core and has two winding wire ends, at least one winding wire end of which is coupled to the at least one contact device to conduct a current via at least one plug connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Markus LANG, Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20240364174
    Abstract: A salient pole rotor includes a rotor core which has a rotor yoke and salient poles arranged distributed over the rotor yoke in the circumferential direction, magnetic field-generating windings which are wound around rotor teeth of the salient poles and form end windings at opposite end sides of the rotor core, and a support device for supporting the end windings. The support device has a clamping and deflecting device and a roving winding with a roving by way of which a plurality of turns offset in the circumferential direction and encompassing the windings of a respective salient pole pair are formed and which for this purpose has axial first roving portions and end-side second roving portions. The second roving portions are guided over the end windings for forming a turn between radially opposite salient poles and are deflected along the circumferential direction for forming an interturn transition between two turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Markus LANG, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20240356401
    Abstract: A rotor, a corresponding electric machine, a manufacturing method and a corresponding motor vehicle are disclosed. The rotor has a cavity structure in a first winding head supporting structure and a cut-out in a second winding head supporting structure which are connected by way of feed and return lines for a coolant. Here, the cavity structure has an inflow region, into which a coolant guide of a rotor shaft opens, and a return region which is separate from the inflow region. In this way, the rotor is configured for liquid cooling of the winding head supporting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Markus LANG, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20240322633
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (20) for an electric machine (10), comprising:—at least one rotor laminated core (30) that has at least one coil receiving opening (40);—at least one coil device (50) which is located in the at least one coil receiving opening (40); and—at least one holding device (70) which is joined to the rotor laminated core (30) and prevents an outward movement (B), brought about by centrifugal force, of the at least one coil device (50) in the radial extension direction (R) of the rotor (20) and out of the at least one coil receiving opening (40) during normal use of the electric machine (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20240283317
    Abstract: A sliding cover for a salient-pole rotor of an electric machine is configured to close a slot formed between two rotor poles of the salient-pole rotor which are adjacent in the peripheral direction and two supporting rings of the salient-pole rotor which are mutually axially opposite. The sliding cover is of a multi-part design and includes a slot wedge, which can be mechanically connected to the two adjacent rotor poles; a support, which is linearly guided in the slot wedge and includes a sealing surface of the sliding cover for pressing against at least one of the supporting rings and can be slid axially along the slot wedge in order to change the axial position of the sealing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Markus LANG, Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 12064388
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for end effectors having an aperture are disclosed. An end effector may be driven by a reciprocating driver that drives the end effector in a reciprocating manner. The end effector may have an aperture therethrough and may be formed from a flexible high rebound material. When driven, the end effector may transfer energy from the reciprocating driver to a target treatment area on a recipient for therapeutic purposes. Energy may pass from the reciprocating driver and be temporarily stored within the end effector before being released and imparted to the target treatment area. The end effector may contract about the aperture and rebound to deliver the energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: InnerWave Health LLC
    Inventors: Robert Schmidt, Neal Piper
  • Publication number: 20240240508
    Abstract: A door actuation system may include an actuation device to move a first door leaf and a second door leaf between an open and a closed position. The actuation device may provide an open preload force in the open position. The actuation device may provide a closed preload force in the closed position. The system may include one or more of: a first engagement member that may contact the actuation device and may allow movement of the actuation device to adjust the open and closed preload force; or the actuation device may be coupled with the first door leaf by a first rod and the second door leaf by a second rod, at least one of the first or second rod may adjust a length of the first or second rod to maintain the open preload force in the open position and the closed preload force in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Schmidt, Frank Golemis, Karl Kobel, Robert Johnson, Matthew Chapman
  • Publication number: 20240227598
    Abstract: A method of moving a charging assembly to engage a vehicle is provided. The method may include driving an upper arm of the charging assembly with an actuator, moving a lower arm and a passive linkage using a force from the upper arm and the actuator, and extending or retracting the passive linkage using the force from the upper arm and the actuator. The method may include sensing one or more electrical characteristics of the charging assembly. The method may include engaging a stop of the passive linkage to allow a substantially vertical movement of a charging head of the charging assembly responsive to the electrical characteristics being below a threshold. The method may include moving the passive linkage away from the stop to allow a substantially horizontal movement of the charging head responsive to the electrical characteristics being at or above the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ikechi Olakunle Emelogu, Timothy Robert Schmidt, Karl Kobel
  • Publication number: 20240227589
    Abstract: A charging assembly is provided and may include a charging head, an actuator, a linkage, and a connection portion. The charging head may selectively engage a charging contact of a vehicle. The actuator may drive an upper arm. The linkage may be extendable and retractable and may be driven by one or more of the actuator or a weight of the charging assembly. The connection portion may selectively couple the actuator and the upper arm. The connection portion may engage the actuator and the upper arm while the charging head is not engaging the vehicle and allow a torque from the actuator to move the charging head in a vertical direction. The connection portion may disengage the actuator from the upper arm while the charging head engages the vehicle and allow a force from the weight of the charging assembly to move the charging head in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Timothy Robert Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20240227599
    Abstract: A charging assembly is provided including a charging head positioned to selectively engage a charging contact of a vehicle, an actuator that may drive an upper arm, and a passive linkage that is passively extendable and retractable in length. The passive linkage may include a stop to limit movement of the passive linkage. The passive linkage may be passively driven by the upper arm and the actuator. A lower arm may be coupled to the upper arm, the passive linkage, and the charging head. The passive linkage may engage the stop to allow a torque from the actuator to move the charging head in a substantially vertical direction while the charging head is not engaging the vehicle. The passive linkage may move away from the stop such that the torque on the lower arm moves the charging head in a substantially horizontal direction while the charging head engages the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Schmidt, Robert Gallant, Karl Kobel
  • Patent number: 12017935
    Abstract: An article of manufacture for providing a water salinizer to add salt to pool water is disclosed. The water salinizer includes a barrel having a sidewall, a convex bottom, an angled sidewall between the convex bottom and the side wall, and an opening is a top surface for dissolving material into water, an input port coupled to the angled sidewall and being configured with the convex bottom to direct an incoming pressurized water stream and salt around the barrel along the angled sidewall, and a discharge port coupled to the sidewall about the opening in the top surface on an opposite side of the barrel from the input port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: D1049488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Björn Kling, Gregor Ptok, Robert Schmidt, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Patent number: D1055496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fritz Schubert, Dominik Heinz Langhammer, Robert Schmidt